Candles

thorsoak

Put your candles in the freezer ...they seem to burn for longer, and more evenly when they've been frozen.

mardatha

I can make Ikea in Edinburgh easily enough. No Wilks no B&M, no Homesense and no hardware stores though I am using Asda tealights and some Ikeas tealights but they are pretty rubbish and I would love real proper candles.. MrsL would Sainsburys have household candles? Or has anybody found a good seller online?

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They most likely will MAR, I saw them in W8rose the other day and also in T*sco. Am*zon sell them too I think. Just looked online and they have a pack of 16 A.R Household Candles for £1.60p!

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I have just been buying more 100% stearin candles, ikea sell them but I get the pillar ones from
http://ecclesiacandles.co.uk/

These are really good to burn in a metal lantern as it is safe and it gives out a lot of heat, considering that there will be no heat input here if power supplies go off. I do have a lot of candles in but am liking to burn my dinner candles in this dull weather, I am `saving` the pillar candles for just in case times

I have 3 old wee willie winkie brass candle holders and am using them just now and only today worked out, doh, that the best and easiest way to remove the wax is to leave a stump with a bit of wick and to freeze them

I also have quite a few stearin tealights and a few nice glass holders, mush needed light input into this gloom that has descended

scottishminnie

Maratha

If you are in Edinburgh at IKEA there is also a Homesense there (well ,Fort Kinnaird so guessing not too far from IKEA). I haven't been however it's one of my favourite haunts whilst in the U.S. Hoping to drop in soon.

http://www.homesense.com/stores.php?store=fort_kinnaird

Naseby

Sainsbury's Household Dinner Candles - 6 for £1.00

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/6pk-household-dinner-candles

HTH

TravellingAbuela

I realise Mardatha is after household type candles, but if anyone is wanting scented candles I can recommend the Wax Lyrical ones from Dunelm. I rate them as good as Yankee but cheaper.

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MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Best candles for giving light are old fashioned Household Candles. You'll get them in any hardware store and even the big supermarkets sell them in packets of 10.

I agree about the supermarkets. Last time I looked, Asda were selling 10 taper candles (with a burn time of 6 hours each), for £2.

From time to time, £land sell boxes of 8 household candles. I bought 4 boxes, which went into (and remain in) my emergency stores.

With the wafer thin power margin, on the National Grid, now would be a good time, to lay in a stock of candles.